Black-tailed Godwit
The last in the series from Leighton Moss RSPB in Lancashire. These pictures are of the black-tailed godwit. It was a lone bird sitting and preening with a flock of common redshanks. The pictures show the black tail of this species quite well as it...
read moreGreenshank at Leighton Moss RSPB Lancashire
The next in the series from my visit to Leighton Moss RSPB in Lancashire. These are the greenshanks that were at the Allan Pool viewed from the Eric Morecambe Hide. They came quite close to the hide giving good opportunities to get pictures. The light wasn’t the best but it was...
read moreLittle Egret Leighton Moss RSPB Lancashire
Another species of bird photographed in Lancashire last week was the little egret, they seem to be doing very well over much of the country these days. Twenty years ago these birds were very rare indeed but now they seem to be in most areas. The egrets were on the Allan Pool and we counted about forty five in the area during the day, and these are some of the pictures...
read moreSpotted Redshank, at Leighton Moss RSPB, Lancashire
I stopped off at Leighton Moss RSPB for a short time on my journey back home from Lancashire. There was a Spotted Redshank just in front on the hide for short time, one of the distinguishing features on this bird is the long slender bill and the paler breast of the common redshank. The light was good so I got these pictures.
read moreBadgers in Lancashire
I visited a site with a photographer friend (Andrew) in Lancashire managed by the Lancashire Badger Group. Its a site I have visited before many years ago, probably fifteen years ago. The site was once used by the BBC for filming badgers even further back than my last visit.We booked the site primarily for photography, just the two of us. Andrew had been previously a few weeks ago, and didn’t take any picture for fear of spooking then with the shutter noise and therefor depriving the other eight visitors in the hide that night. We met two members of the Badger Group at the farm were...
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